Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Remote)

Speechify; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in Detroit, MI, with remote work options. You will own major features end to end, partnering with design and product teams to ship impactful changes while maintaining code quality and mentoring teammates.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong Kotlin, MVVM, and Android platform skills, plus a track record of delivering reliable background work and guiding others toward high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Expertise in Kotlin and Android app development.
• Experience shipping long-running background work and understanding testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and drive decisions.
• Coordinate with Product, Design, and Engineering early on.

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Background services

UI/UX

Team leadership

Open source contributions

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in Detroit, MI, with remote work options. You will own major features end to end, partnering with design and product teams to ship impactful changes while maintaining code quality and mentoring teammates.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong Kotlin, MVVM, and Android platform skills, plus a track record of delivering reliable background work and guiding others toward high-quality releases.